- Outside the Frame
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50 x 70 inch white frame
white vintage silk shirt
cotton cords
pool of assorted objects:
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two women’s white heeled shoe fragments one with lattice toe area
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the second with black patent leather insert
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one pair of children’s alphabet soled shoes gift item
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single child’s shoe with orthopedic lift and multicolored eyelets from Mitzpe Ramon
two light bulbs
spindled cord
pocket mirror
sieve in enamelware
coffee cup
shards of plaster
candle
A selection of items found in the Negev desert and elsewhere were embedded in white paper pulp. The shirt, connected to the spindled cords, was dipped in paper and hung on the frame. As the pulp dried it shrunk, holding the objects in place.
Outside the Frame is the title of a cloth and paper work displayed at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, 1995.
The shirt signals to a flock of cawing crows overhead in the abandoned landscape “Look here, look here! the artifacts of a civilization are being uncovered by the constant blowing sand and howling wind!”
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There were several of us electing to work close to the
crater’s edge It was a magnificent long view of a barren
rock and sand
landscape stretching as far as the eye could see
Adjacent was the Quonset hut where we were to
eat
and behind stood the dorm vacated for Passover where we
slept. Far below in the crater tiny black cords
were visible revealing the presence
of water and beside the Bedouin tent huddled
graygreen shrubs bent by the wind gnarled and spiny
a stage performers the performing wind the sun
catchclaw acacia curved sharp spines paired lowslung bush
to follow water importance to wildlife is cover from the
sun spreading branchlets clawlike spines are lightly
hairy
rarely tree size as all things that grow a dark and
gray green color
desert smoke tree also short spiny bends with wind
and leafless hairy with a purple flower
Camels hump mesa at a great distance climb down the crevice
up again from rubble rock and broken cement block
a barren rocks and path distance
every step ahead seen for miles in advance
lizard by day and snake by night
a toad with one spade foot a horny blade cuts soil and rock
desert butterflies occur nowhere else on earth
broad-necked darkling beetle uniform dull
black with tan strips on the tibia moves with head down and
abdomen raised in heat of day burrows down in sand
beneath opaque objects until night
tarantula hawk
the black ant smooth with sparse body hair lives under stones
black brush and sage
nests below sand raising small craters
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the wingless queen larger and darker than the workers
females lay eggs and regurgitate to feed the queen
flying adults search dry wood suitably
constructing galleries
in large colonies the soldiers are of
different sizes
Dwarf live oak (acacia greggi)
lowest sandy area
The wind rises to a whining scream the sky in moments
transforms vacant cloudless blue yellowish to
opaque ochre a curtain drops gone is the
mesa the wind lifts the hair up from the head and
turns the pockets inside out nothing to hold
leaning Butoh-dancer like into the wind
slow-motion
Emilia gets out of her car. A huge ball of fabric that she holds lifts up and begins to be taken by the wind. Gripping the hood of the car, she opens the door and slowly, very slowly, drives away.
the great wind shaking through the sky screaming mouths
shaping words unable to hear them
the mind untethers...